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Model-turned-actress Kate Upton considered deleting all her social media accounts after her nude pictures were leaked online last year. The “Other Woman” star was among the female celebrities caught …

Kate Upton was not pleased about the nude photo leak. (Photo by Steve Jennings/Getty Images for EXPRESS)

Model-turned-actress Kate Upton considered deleting all her social media accounts after her nude pictures were leaked online last year.

The “Other Woman” star was among the female celebrities caught up in the Hollywood hacking, during which intimate pictures stolen by cyber criminals were posted on the Internet.

Upton admits she was furious about the leak, telling the London Evening Standard newspaper, “It was very difficult. It’s an invasion of my privacy and it’s not OK. It’s illegal. People don’t have a right to look at those photos or judge them.”

The blonde beauty goes on to admit she longs to log off all her social media accounts in a bid to protect her privacy, but knows she needs to use sites such as Twitter.com to stay in the public eye, adding, “I fantasize about deleting my social media accounts. But I can’t.”

Taylor Swift’s Twitter and Instagram.com accounts were briefly taken over by hackers, who threatened to release nude photos of the pop superstar, on Tuesday. The singer, who has been on vacation in …

Taylor Swift. (Photo by Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic)

Taylor Swift’s Twitter and Instagram.com accounts were briefly taken over by hackers, who threatened to release nude photos of the pop superstar, on Tuesday.

The singer, who has been on vacation in Hawaii, awoke on Tuesday morning to discover her Twitter profile had been infiltrated by cyber criminals calling themselves the ‘Lizard Squad,’ who called on her 71 million fans to follow the hackers’ accounts.

They then gained access to Swift’s Instagram account too, and posted similar messages online, claiming to be in possession of naked snaps of the singer, which they would release for a small fee.

Swift used her Tumblr.com blog to alert devotees to the cyber attack, revealing, “This is going to be a long day”, but social networking officials managed to move quickly and shut down the illegal access, in addition to the hackers’ Twitter accounts.

Returning to Twitter, the star made light of the situation by amending the lyrics of her hit song Shake It Off, writing, “Cause the hackers gonna hack, hack, hack, hack, hack…”

She also gave a special shout out to Paramore’s Hayley Williams, who alerted her pal to the strange messages, adding, “I’d like to acknowledge the MVP of the day, @yelyahwilliams, for being the first to text me about the hack this morning. #FriendshipGoals”.

And Swift made it clear the alleged nude photos don’t exist, tweeting, “PS any hackers saying they have ‘nudes’? Psssh you’d love that wouldn’t you! Have fun photoshopping cause you got NOTHING.”

The Lizard Squad members claim they are the same group behind the Sony PlayStation and Xbox Live gaming hacks last year, while they also allege to have caused Facebook and Instagram to go down briefly on Monday.

He is facing up to 60 years in jail after he admitted hacking into email addresses belonging to more than 50 celebrities and stealing personal data – including nude photos of Johansson – and now he’s spoken out to reveal how simple it was to access the accounts.

Chaney insists once he broke into one unnamed star’s account – using details freely available on the internet – he searched her inbox and found emails from dozens of other famous faces, enabling him to add them to his list of targets.

He tells GQ magazine, “You feel like you’ve seen something that the rest of the world wanted to see. But you’re the only one that’s seen it. It’s the whole ‘Star Trek’ thing – going where no man has gone before.”

Chaney admits he was first tempted to try out email hacking after reading how Miley Cyrus was targeted by cyber-crooks in 2008, adding, “I was like, ‘How hard could this be if it’s happening all the time?'”